Firefox/Planning/2014-01-08

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

• Firefox 26 looks good, no major issues heard after the break.

Beta (147)

• Firefox 27 Beta 4 for Desktop shipped yesterday (1/7)

Firefox Metro

• Team working on Iteration #22 until Friday January 17.
• 10 out of 49 points completed to date for Iteration #22.
• 8 out of 29 bugs resolved to date for Iteration #21.
• To date, 23 bugs are blocking our uplift to Beta 28 - View Bug List

Full Query

ID	Summary	Status	Assigned to	Whiteboard
860081	Higher-resolution overlay button icons	RESOLVED	Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] (mmaslaney@mozilla.com)	[beta28] [ux] p=0 [qa-]
893856	Toast Notifications Image	RESOLVED	Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] (mmaslaney@mozilla.com)	[beta28] [ux] p=0 [qa-]
905621	Stylize the bad url error page	RESOLVED	Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] (mmaslaney@mozilla.com)	[beta28] [ux] p=0 [qa-]
927402	Disabling telemetry through settings still shows "enabled" under about:telemetry	VERIFIED	Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]	[beta28] [defect] p=2 [qa-]
943069	Gmail composition text body slides up too far for editing	RESOLVED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=1
943071	Selection monocles aren't positioned correctly after the browser shifts due to skb display	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=2
944215	OSK not appearing on the first tap under Navigation App Bar (also not dismissing)	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=1
945438	Can't select menu items with mouse in Google's div-based select widgets	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=3
947078	Make the "Include URLs" option for the crash reporter into a checkbox instead of a toggle	VERIFIED	Allison Naaktgeboren :ally	[beta28] [feature] p=2
948139	Add telemetry for switching from Metro to Desktop	RESOLVED	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	[beta28] [feature] p=1 [qa-]
948778	Add vertical rule to tab strip to visually indicate a cut-off point	RESOLVED	Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]	[beta28] [feature] p=2 [qa-]
950917	Pinned tabs lost when going between desktop/win8 touch/desktop mode	RESOLVED	Marina Samuel [:emtwo]	[beta28] [defect] p=2
950986	"Windows 8 Touch" (switch to Metro) not appearing in Australis menu panel or customization UI on a Windows 8 tablet	VERIFIED	Marina Samuel [:emtwo]	[beta28] [defect] p=2
951635	Removing animations from tile swipes in snapped view	VERIFIED	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	[beta28] [defect] p=1
952297	Left scroll arrow in the Metro tab strip is visible even when tab strip is not scrollable	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=2
952663	Create tests for expected tab strip behavior	RESOLVED	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	[beta28] [feature] p=1 [qa-]
952835	screen goes to sleep while video still playing in Metro Firefox	VERIFIED	Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]	[beta28] [defect] p=5
952846	Don't ship unused PDF.js files in metro installer	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=1
952906	"Close" button icon for autocomplete isn't visible	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=1
952989	Sliding in Windows Charm while OSK visible on top of Find App Bar will re-appear when selecting "Options"	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=1
952993	Screen isn't wrapping all the way to the top when using the OSK to search for next instance	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=2
953430	tapping on completed download button under about:start produces a blank app bar	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=2
953433	download button using two different colors after completing download	VERIFIED	Oleg Zasypkin [:azasypkin]	[release28] [defect] p=0
956286	nightly started from taskbar icon doesn't get startup focus	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=2
956368	[session store] Tab Groups lost after switching from desktop to Metro and back	VERIFIED	Marina Samuel [:emtwo]	[beta28] [defect] p=2
956741	Load first run on start page for the first 3 tabs	VERIFIED	Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]	[beta28] [feature] p=1
957150	Errors restoring session in Metro mode if it contains navigation within a document	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=3
957806	Stylize the Bad URL Error Page - Implementation	VERIFIED	Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)	[beta28] [defect] p=2
958166	"browser is not defined" error in SessionStore.js when saving a session with tab groups	VERIFIED	Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)	[beta28] [defect] p=1
958170	Intermittent unresponsive blank white content on about:start on startup	RESOLVED	Marina Samuel [:emtwo]	[beta28] [defect] p=1
959147	Search Results Overlay Minimum Results has Two Blank Tiles	VERIFIED	Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]	[beta28] [defect] p=1
959399	Firefox users who switch to metroFx and close the browser will lose their sessions	VERIFIED	Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]	[defect] [beta28] p=3
959792	On the nav bar edit, can't drag selection monocles for bad domains	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=3
960354	Multi-select drop down menus don't update properly	VERIFIED	Jim Mathies [:jimm]	[beta28] [defect] p=2

34 Total; 0 Open (0%); 9 Resolved (26.47%); 25 Verified (73.53%);

Developer Tools

• The tracing debugger has landed but is preffed off for the forseeable future. Toggle 'devtools.debugger.tracer' to check it out.
• we now automagically pretty-print minified JS according to some sensible heuristics
• the theme-apocalypse is still happening, things are getting flatter
• Add-on Builder is now read-only
• outbound will be slow until the end of the month

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Mobile

• Here is how the device landscape will look like in 2014, according to Gartner.
  • There will be 2.5 billion units shipped throughout the year of PCs, tablets and phones, which is 7.6% higher than 2013.
  • There will be 1.9 billion phones sold, 5 % more than last year.
  • Tablets are growing at a staggering 47% rate, but their number is smaller: 263 million will be shipped in 2014. ** PCs sales are only by very little larger than tablets and they are the only segment that is declining year-over-year (by 7%), with 277 million units forecasted. In 2015, tablets are expected to out sell PCs, with 324 million over 268 million.
  • In terms of operating systems, across all forms factors (PCs, tablets, phones), Android is on top, with 1.1 billion shipments, followed from a distance by Windows with 359 million, and iOS / Mac OS with 344 million. Chrome OS is on 5th place, with a forecasted 1.8 million device sales.

• Before the holiday season Opera released version 2.0 of Coast, it’s iPad browser. The browser moves the location bar from its traditional place further down and centre of the page. Its start page interface is heavily customised for gesture interactions and allows an unlimited number of 3x3 grids of shortcuts, that can be modified with already opened tabs by swiping them from the edge of the page. Screenshots here.

• Google announced the Open Automotive Alliance, an alliance of industry players that has the aim to bring Android to cars. Founding members include Audi, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia.

• LG launched their first TV that runs WebOS. Minimum system requirements are a 2.2 GHz dual-core CPU and 1.5 GB of RAM. The device promises a more intuitive interface for easier control and a more pleasant experience.

• South Korea and the European Union are starting to plan for the implementation of 5G networks. The Asian nation is planning to start testing a nationwide network in 2018 and have a commercial service in 2020. The European Commission is starting a 5G Public-Private Partnership at the beginning of 2014 with the charter of researching implementation of greater network speeds. The founding members of the association are Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Orange. Also in Europe, a 5G Innovation Centre is planned with the help of the UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, and backed by industry players such as Telefonica, EE, Vodafone, Huawei, Samsung.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Engagement Team work-week next week in Santa Cruz (Tue - Thur) -- we will be offline, working hard planning how to help Firefox reach its 2014 goals
• Brazil Desktop campaign turning on again now that the 'airwaves' have cleared after the holidays